Date: 19th January 2015 Posted by: admin In: Uncategorised

Just today our resident sculptor Alfie Bradley has travelled across the UK to make collections from our knife banks in the Lancashire and Yorkshire area. This was Alfies second trip to the Lancashire Amnesty bin, and therefore was not at all surprised by the massive collection we have come to expect from the area. After working with C.I. Scott Barnes previously on the surrender your knife project Alfie knew exactly what to expect when he arrived this afternoon at the station.

Lancashire Police agreed to assist us in the campaign after some alarming statistics were released regarding knife crime in their area. BBC News have reported some of these frightening facts on to us, and they are as follows:

Police have launched a knife amnesty after new figures showed there were almost 4,000 blade-related offences in Lancashire over four years.

• 3,712 offences involving knives between April 2010 and March 2014.
• Of the recorded offences, 321 were injuries, 612 were possession of deadly weapon (knives), and 459 were knife-related public order offences.

 

Amongst the massive piles of donated melee this week Alfie has already began to sort through and remove unwanted items such as mobile phones, as well as some more shocking items such as Knives, swords, guns, bullets, knuckle dusters machetes to name a few.

Once he has completed the sorting of these items he intends to continue the preparation by de-contaminating the blades (some of which remained blood stained from previous attacks) and blunting their edges so they can no longer cause harm to innocent people, and made pliable so they can finally be used to create our stunning sculpture.

“I’ll be starting at the lower half of the angel, building up its legs using these large steel bars” Quotes Alfie  “it’s going to take ages, but it’ll be worth it”

He went on further

“I’ve been getting calls from other policemen I’ve spoke with, they have hundreds [of knives] to donate”.